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A Trio of Bank Ratios

by Annaly Capital Management Lest anyone think we missed it, on August 31st the FDIC put out its Quarterly Banking Profile for the second quarter of 2010. The headline was glowing: “Quarterly Earnings Are Highest in Almost Three Years.”…

Hiding Bank Losses

In a recent post on the money multiplier, a reader Luis Enrique asked about bank lending and capital constraints. Anecdotally, much of the reduction in credit is supply-constrained as well as demand-constrained. That means it's a matter of…

Tepid Top Lines

The market is engaged in a discussion over what the Federal Reserve will do next. St. Louis Fed president James Bullard published a provocative paper about ratcheting up quantitative easing to avoid the Japanese dilemma. Conversely, Philly…

The Shadow Knows

From Annaly Capital Management For those who missed it (and we had, until we were tipped by James Aitken, thank you very much), a vital paper was posted to the New York Fed’s website in the beginning of the month. “Shadow Banking,” a staff…

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